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Posts tagged with 'LBJ' at MetaFilter.Mon, 21 Nov 2016 09:14:10 -0800Mon, 21 Nov 2016 09:14:10 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60You have to deal with the powerlesshttp://www.metafilter.com/163532/You%2Dhave%2Dto%2Ddeal%2Dwith%2Dthe%2Dpowerless
<a href="https://medium.com/matter/means-of-descent-ada5e2af6a4d#.ebygnkaya">Means of Descent.</a> An interview with Robert Caro, author of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/books/review/the-power-broker-40-years-later.html?_r=0">The Power Broker</a> and the series <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Years_of_Lyndon_Johnson">The Years of Lyndon Johnson</a>. An examination of power, getting things done, and the human costs of doing so. Bonus reading:
<a href="http://www.earlybirdbooks.com/11-bizarre-facts-from-robert-caros-the-years-of-lyndon-johnson/">11 Bizarre Facts from The Years of Lyndon Johnson</a>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/10/lyndon-b-johnson-robert-caro-biography">Robert Caro profile in The Guardian</a> tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.163532Mon, 21 Nov 2016 09:14:10 -0800MchellyWe're Like Groupieshttp://www.metafilter.com/159538/Were%2DLike%2DGroupies
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/nyregion/the-dutch-prime-minister-is-a-big-fan.html">Robert Caro takes Mark Rutte on a tour of Robert Moses' New York.</a> [NYT] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Caro">Robert Caro</a> is the biographer of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses">Robert Moses</a> and of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson">Lyndon B. Johnson</a>.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rutte">Mark Rutte</a> is the Prime Minister of the Netherlands tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.159538Fri, 13 May 2016 13:56:26 -0800chavenet"A little child shall be born in a grocery store in Whittier..."http://www.metafilter.com/143922/A%2Dlittle%2Dchild%2Dshall%2Dbe%2Dborn%2Din%2Da%2Dgrocery%2Dstore%2Din%2DWhittier
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XycnNH7y938&amp;list=PLe4T7kN269MwrG1Bv1JOZ_gbPpw3wVgm0">"And on the Seventh Day, He gave a Barbecue."</a> - Based on the 1969 book of the same name, <i>The Begatting of The President</i> is a parody Biblical retelling of the fall of Johnson and the rise of Nixon as narrated by Orson Welles. [Youtube playlist] tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.143922Sat, 25 Oct 2014 20:57:04 -0800FerreousIt hasn't even landed on the tarmac yet.http://www.metafilter.com/139974/It%2Dhasnt%2Deven%2Dlanded%2Don%2Dthe%2Dtarmac%2Dyet
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-al-sharpton/why-2014-should-be-another-freedom-summer_b_5499855.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000047">Why 2014 Should Be Another Freedom Summer.</a> <em><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/50-years-ago-freedom-summer-changed-south-us-24142834">"Everybody told us our lives would be in danger," said Futorian, now a 76-year-old attorney. "I probably didn't have as much trepidation as I should have. Because it's hard to imagine your own death."
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<a href="http://americanprogress.org/issues/race/report/2014/06/16/91793/true-south-unleashing-democracy-in-the-black-belt-50-years-after-freedom-summer/">Unleashing Democracy in the Black Belt 50 Years After Freedom Summer</a>
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<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/06/14/318917992/50-years-ago-freedom-summer-began-by-training-for-battle">"Just imagine someone has you on the lawn in the summertime in June," she says. "They have you laying down, and they're telling you to cover your body and how to protect yourself. Can you imagine the call home? This was no longer summer camp, and there was no lake for you to go fishing in! Trust me!"</a></em></a>
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/national/freedom-summer-friends-50-years-later/2014/06/16/aa8857a8-9338-4976-84b2-8c4bdf683a1b_video.html">Freedom Summer friends, 50 years later</a> (automatically plays video)
<a href="http://keranews.org/post/voices-freedom-summer-recalling-season-changed-america">The Voices of Freedom Summer</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.139974Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:28:52 -0800roomthreeseventeenThere was the world inside the plane and the world outside ithttp://www.metafilter.com/133495/There%2Dwas%2Dthe%2Dworld%2Dinside%2Dthe%2Dplane%2Dand%2Dthe%2Dworld%2Doutside%2Dit
Flying on Air Force One the day Kennedy died: <i>"In the small aft cabin, behind the bedroom, Sergeant Ayres is removing two rows of seats to make room for a casket. ... Johnson then asks [Robert] Kennedy where he should take the oath of office and what its exact words are. The questions are met with silence before Kennedy replies that he will find out and call back. He hangs up."</i> <a href="http://www.esquire.com/features/flight-from-dallas-1013">Esquire</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonian.com/projects/JFK-AF1/layout1.html">The Washingtonian</a>: <i>"The blue-and-white Boeing 707 sat waiting to whisk the presidential party to Austin for the final stop on the multiday Kennedy-Johnson Texas tour. Colonel James Swindal, the presidential pilot, had taken on only a small fuel load—carefully tested for contaminants before being used—because it was just another 180 miles to the state capital. But Air Force One would never depart for Austin."</i>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_One">Air Force One</a>, the call sign for any airplane carrying the President of the United States, has flown every president since <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/original-air-force-found-decaying-arizona-article-1.1400350">Eisenhower</a> (FDR was the first president to fly while in office; Teddy Roosevelt the first president to fly at all; but neither flew in a plane with the call sign Air Force One). This month, both <strong>Esquire</strong> and the <strong>Washingtonian</strong> feature longform articles about the flight back to DC from Dallas after the JFK assassination.
Kenneth Walsh <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/03/special/books/sp_books_walsh052203.htm">wrote a book</a> about Air Force One (WaPo interview). On 9/11, the Bush team feared the terrorists <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2034423/9-11-message-Air-Force-One-pilot-Mark-Tillman-got-flew-President-Bush.html">might try to ram Air Force One in the air</a> (Daily Mail). <a href="http://www.kiplinger.com/article/business/T043-C012-S010-flying-air-force-one.html">Flying on Air Force One</a> today. Wikipedia has a list of<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_transports_of_heads_of_state_and_government"> air transport used by heads of state and government</a>. <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2009/02/18/flying-on-air-force-one-with-the-obamas.html">Flying with the Obamas</a> in 2009. <a href="http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/air-force-one-big-fp-800x615.gif">Floor Plan</a>. <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/air-force-one-inside-barack-760172">Pictures</a> (and schematics). <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118571/">Harrison Ford movie</a>. <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/air-force-one">White House info</a>. <a href="http://www.howstuffworks.com/air-force-one.htm/printable">How Stuff Works</a>. <a href="http://www.boeing.com/boeing/defense-space/military/af1/">Boeing</a>. Marine One<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_One"> is a helicopter</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.133495Sun, 03 Nov 2013 18:29:32 -0800Eyebrows McGeeShould a six-year-old be permitted to read Robert Caro?http://www.metafilter.com/133434/Should%2Da%2Dsix%2Dyear%2Dold%2Dbe%2Dpermitted%2Dto%2Dread%2DRobert%2DCaro
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/10/the-perils-of-precocity.html">The Perils of Precocity</a> by Thomas Beller. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.133434Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:19:32 -0800xowieAmerican Rhetorichttp://www.metafilter.com/129152/American%2DRhetoric
Perhaps slightly obscurred by its charmingly primitive web design,<a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/"> my new favorite website is a fantastic reference resource for delving into American speeches that have changed history as well as discovering new amazing ones.</a> <a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html">THE TOP 100 SPEECHES</a> is an index to and substantial database of full text transcriptions of the 100 most significant American political speeches of the 20th century, according to a list compiled by Professors Stephen E. Lucas and Martin J. Medhurst. Dr. Lucas is Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Dr. Medhurst is Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Communication at Baylor University (Texas). 137 leading scholars of American public address were asked to recommend speeches on the basis of social and political impact, and rhetorical artistry.
Some of my favorites include, <blockquote><a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/barbarajordan1976dnc.html">1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address</a>
"Thank you ladies and gentlemen for a very warm reception. It was one hundred and forty-four years ago that members of the Democratic Party first met in convention to select a Presidential candidate. Since that time, Democrats have continued to convene once every four years and draft a party platform and nominate a Presidential candidate. And our meeting this week is a continuation of that tradition. But there is something different about tonight. There is something special about tonight. What is different? What is special? I, Barbara Jordan, am a keynote speaker."
<a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/lbjweshallovercome.htm">LBJ's Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation: "We Shall Overcome"</a>
"In our time we have come to live with the moments of great crisis. Our lives have been marked with debate about great issues -- issues of war and peace, issues of prosperity and depression. But rarely in any time does an issue lay bare the secret heart of America itself. Rarely are we met with a challenge, not to our growth or abundance, or our welfare or our security, but rather to the values, and the purposes, and the meaning of our beloved nation. The issue of equal rights for American Negroes is such an issue. And should we defeat every enemy, and should we double our wealth and conquer the stars, and still be unequal to this issue, then we will have failed as a people and as a nation. For with a country as with a person, "What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem. And we are met here tonight as Americans -- not as Democrats or Republicans. We are met here as Americans to solve that problem."
<a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/wilsonwarmessage.htm">Woodrow Wilson's War Message</a>
"We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling towards them but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or approval. It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the old, unhappy days when peoples were nowhere consulted by their rulers and wars were provoked and waged in the interest of dynasties or of little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow men as pawns and tools. Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies or set the course of intrigue to bring about some critical posture of affairs which will give them an opportunity to strike and make conquest. Such designs can be successfully worked out only under cover and where no one has the right to ask questions. Cunningly contrived plans of deception or aggression, carried, it may be, from generation to generation, can be worked out and kept from the light only within the privacy of courts or behind carefully guarded confidences of a narrow and privileged class. They are happily impossible where public opinion commands and insists upon full information concerning all the nation's affairs."
<a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwightdeisenhowerfarewell.html">Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address</a>
"Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense. We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security alone more than the net income of all United States cooperations -- corporations. Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet, we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
<a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/hueyplongking.htm">Huey P. Long's Every Man a King, 1934</a>
I contend, my friends, that we have no difficult problem to solve in America, and that is the view of nearly everyone with whom I have discussed the matter here in Washington and elsewhere throughout the United States -- that we have no very difficult problem to solve. It is not the difficulty of the problem which we have; it is the fact that the rich people of this country -- and by rich people I mean the super-rich -- will not allow us to solve the problems, or rather the one little problem that is afflicting this country, because in order to cure all of our woes it is necessary to scale down the big fortunes, that we may scatter the wealth to be shared by all of the people. We have a marvelous love for this Government of ours; in fact, it is almost a religion, and it is well that it should be, because we have a splendid form of government and we have a splendid set of laws. We have everything here that we need, except that we have neglected the fundamentals upon which the American Government was principally predicated.</blockquote>Make sure you don't miss in their sidebar,<blockquote><a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/21stcenturyspeeches.htm">A bank of improtant speeches from the 21st Century</a>
<a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/barackobamaspeeches.htm">Similarly obsessively compiled bank of Obama's speeches</a>
<a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/rhetoricofterrorism.htm">Rhetoric of September 11th and terrorism</a></blockquote>But really you've got to just go rooting through it yourself, happy hunting!
<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/29530/Online-American-Speeches-and-Text-Bank">Previously in 2003</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.129152Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:32:25 -0800BlasdelbLBJ v. Coke Stevenson: Lawyering for Control of the Disputed Texas Democratic Party Senatorial Primary Election of 1948http://www.metafilter.com/116409/LBJ%2Dv%2DCoke%2DStevenson%2DLawyering%2Dfor%2DControl%2Dof%2Dthe%2DDisputed%2DTexas%2DDemocratic%2DParty%2DSenatorial%2DPrimary%2DElection%2Dof%2D1948
<a href="http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&amp;context=josiah_daniel" title="LBJ v. Coke Stevenson: Lawyering for Control of the Disputed Texas Democratic Party Senatorial Primary Election of 1948"><i>This article explores the history, from the lawyers' perspective</i> <small>[PDF; 41 pages]</small></a><i>, of a high-profile litigation of sixty years ago, the whirlwind of state and federal litigation that attended the 1948 runoff election battle between Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson and former Texas governor Coke Stevenson for the Texas Democratic Party nomination for the office of United States Senator. Johnson famously won this election by 87 votes [...]</i> Some sources from the article are available online: <a href="http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/oralhistories/lbj" title="Lyndon Johnson Oral History - Miller Center">oral histories of Lyndon Johnson</a>, the <a href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook">Handbook of Texas</a>, and <a href="http://www.robertacaro.com/CokeStevenson.html">My Search for Coke Stevenson</a> by Robert Caro.
<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/114649/He-has-the-Bunton-strain" title="">Previously</a> on Robert Caro's biographies of Lyndon Johnson. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.116409Tue, 29 May 2012 07:34:35 -0800smcgLyndon B. Johnson Buys Pantshttp://www.metafilter.com/99632/Lyndon%2DB%2DJohnson%2DBuys%2DPants
"In 1964, Lyndon Johnson needed pants, so he called the Haggar clothing company and asked for some. The call was recorded (like all White House calls at the time), and has since become the stuff of legend. <a href="http://vimeo.com/18864216">Johnson's anatomically specific directions to Mr. Haggar are some of the most intimate words we've ever heard from the mouth of a President</a>."
From <a href="http://putthison.com/">Put This On</a>. <a href="http://kottke.org">(Via)</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.99632Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:21:57 -0800chavenetRIP Liz Carpenter.http://www.metafilter.com/90278/RIP%2DLiz%2DCarpenter
<a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/DN-carpenterobit_21tex.ART.State.Edition2.4c68294.html">Liz Carpenter, Texas humorist, women's rights crusader and aide to Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, dies at 89</a> Co-founder of the <a href="http://www.nwpc.org/">National Women's Political Caucus</a>, she was a descendant of five generations of Texans, including a 17-year-old relative who died at the Battle of the Alamo. A great-great uncle wrote and signed the Texas Declaration of Independence in 1836.
On Nov. 22, 1963, Carpenter scribbled the 58 words that Lyndon Johnson delivered to the nation when he returned to Washington from Dallas after the assassination of President Kennedy: <strong>"This is a sad time for all people. We have suffered a loss that cannot be weighed. For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help and God's."</strong>
Ann Richards once said, "(Liz is) the tilt-a-whirl at the State Fair with all the lights on and the music. The only difference between Liz and a tilt-a-whirl is that, with Liz, the ride never comes to an end."
Farewell to the <a href="http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:78608">"Foot-Washing, Psalm-Singing, Total Immersion Texan"</a> tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.90278Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:56:01 -0800ColdChef"We know what happened because he said 'yes'"http://www.metafilter.com/87003/We%2Dknow%2Dwhat%2Dhappened%2Dbecause%2Dhe%2Dsaid%2Dyes
Last week on Bill Moyers Journal <a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11202009/watch.html">LBJ tapes were presented detailing Lyndon Johnson's decision to escalate American involvement in Vietnam</a>. Moyers connected these tapes with the current U.S. administration's quest for a solution in the Afghan War. <blockquote>Moyers:
Now in a different world, at a different time, and with a different president, we face the prospect of enlarging a different war. But once again we're fighting in remote provinces against an enemy who can bleed us slowly and wait us out, because he will still be there when we are gone.
Once again, we are caught between warring factions in a country where other foreign powers fail before us. Once again, every setback brings a call for more troops, although no one can say how long they will be there or what it means to win. Once again, the government we are trying to help is hopelessly corrupt and incompetent.
And once again, a President pushing for critical change at home is being pressured to stop dithering, be tough, show he's got the guts, by sending young people seven thousand miles from home to fight and die, while their own country is coming apart.
And once again, the loudest case for enlarging the war is being made by those who will not have to fight it, who will be safely in their beds while the war grinds on. And once again, a small circle of advisers debates the course of action, but one man will make the decision.
We will never know what would have happened if Lyndon Johnson had said no to more war. We know what happened because he said yes. ("A Tale of Two Quagmires" - <a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11202009/transcript1.html">Transcript</a>)</blockquote>
The<a href="http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/"> Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum</a> began releasing the <a href="http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/dictabelt.hom/content.asp">LBJ tapes</a> in <a href="http://www.c-span.org/lbj/homepage.asp?Cat=Series&Code=LJ&ShowVidNum=6&Rot_Cat_CD=LJ&Rot_HT=204">1993</a>. Today, 100s of hours of President Johnson's phone conversations are available to the public. The library <a href="http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/dictabelt.hom/order.asp">sells copies</a> of the tapes to the public for six dollars each and CDs for eight dollars apiece. The LBJ library is not the only place to find these recordings.
The conversations run the gamut and <a href="http://www.cnn.com/US/9710/12/lbj.tapes/">reveal much about Johnson</a>, his policies and the process he used to arrive at his decisions. Some of the topics discussed include <a href="http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB132/tapes.htm">the Gulf of Tonkin Incident</a>, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/US/9610/16/lbj.tapes/index.html">civil rights</a>, <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/04/eveningnews/main4649083.shtml">frustration over Vietnam</a>, <a href="http://www.ssa.gov/history/LBJ/lbj.html">social security</a>, and <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/12/05/Tapes-say-LBJ-suspected-Nixon-of-treason/UPI-73301228490027/">Nixon</a>. C-SPAN has <a href="http://www.c-span.org/lbj/search.asp?Cat=Series&Code=LJ">a nice searchable collection of many LBJ tapes</a>, compiled from those recordings which aired on C-SPAN Radio. The University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs has <a href="http://www.whitehousetapes.net/">a large collection</a> as well <small>(I read it was all of them but am unsure if it actually is).</small> (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/47208/Gulf-of-Tonkin-Intelligence-Deliberately-Skewed">Prev</a>-<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/77199/Is-this-185-minutes-of-tape-anything-important">iously</a>) tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.87003Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:57:38 -0800IvoShandorThe Unmaking of the Presidenthttp://www.metafilter.com/70390/The%2DUnmaking%2Dof%2Dthe%2DPresident
<a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/president-lbj.html"><i>Lyndon Johnson believed that his withdrawal from the 1968 presidential campaign would free him to solidify his legacy—but four days later, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.</i></a> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.70390Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:58:23 -0800veedubyaPeace, Little Girlhttp://www.metafilter.com/64689/Peace%2DLittle%2DGirl
<a href="http://conelrad.com/daisy/index.php">DAISY</a>: The complete history of <a href="http://conelrad.com/daisy/video.php">an infamous and iconic ad</a>. <blockquote><small>DAISY... is a multimedia extravaganza that is the definitive examination of the notorious 1964 television campaign ad that featured a little girl plucking daisies before being obliterated by stock footage of an atomic bomb explosion. Produced for the Democratic National Committee and designed to decimate the presidential aspirations of Senator Barry M. Goldwater, the Daisy spot has come to be regarded as an iconic moment in pop culture history.<br /> <br />CONELRAD has spent the last year tracking down everyone associated with the ad that [they] could find—including the elusive Daisy Girl herself—as well as locating long forgotten historical documents (textual, graphic, audio, and film) in order to create the most authoritative history ever published on this iconic advertisement.</small></blockquote> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.64689Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:44:36 -0800carsonbLadybird Passes Awayhttp://www.metafilter.com/62845/Ladybird%2DPasses%2DAway
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladybird_Johnson">Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson</a> <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-07-11-lady-bird-obit_N.htm">passed</a> <a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3314884&page=1">away</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/11/washington/12cnd-johnson.html?hp">today</a>. During her infancy, a nursemaid commented, "She's as pretty as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladybird">ladybird</a>", and that nickname virtually replaced her given name for the rest of her life. Perhaps her most important impact was her <a href="http://www.wildflower.org/">efforts to protect American wild-flowers</a> and <a href="http://www.inn-california.com/redwoods/Humboldt/Orick/ladybird1.html">other natural places</a>. She is also the namesake of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladybird_Hill">the Hill family dog</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.62845Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:49:05 -0800FloodThe man in the center of the motorcade has learned to tie his shoes.http://www.metafilter.com/60319/The%2Dman%2Din%2Dthe%2Dcenter%2Dof%2Dthe%2Dmotorcade%2Dhas%2Dlearned%2Dto%2Dtie%2Dhis%2Dshoes
On his deathbed, the former CIA spymaster <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/418/000027337/"> E. Howard Hunt</a> made a <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/13893143/the_last_confessions_of_e_howard_hunt">startling confession</a>.
Or so <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1642197.ece">says</a> his son, Saint...Maybe <a href="http://www.assassinationscience.com/johncostella/jfk/">the Zapruder film</a> can tell us if there was a second gunman on the grassy knoll. <a href="http://www.assassinationscience.com/johncostella/jfk/intro/index.html">Or was that a hoax too?</a> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.60319Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:43:59 -0800nasreddinIt's hard to remember, but he was once the future.http://www.metafilter.com/56267/Its%2Dhard%2Dto%2Dremember%2Dbut%2Dhe%2Dwas%2Donce%2Dthe%2Dfuture
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/061120ta_talk_goldberg"><blockquote>"How could this happen to someone so good, so competent?" he said. "This war made me doubt the past. Was I wrong all those years, or was he just better back then? The Donald Rumsfeld of today is not the Donald Rumsfeld I knew, but maybe I was wrong about the old Donald Rumsfeld. It's a terrible way to end a career. It's hard to remember, but he was once the future."</blockquote></a>And for comparison, <a href="http://www.talkingproud.us/HistoryLBJVietnam.html">How did so many smart guys make such a mess of Vietnam?</a> tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.56267Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:14:07 -0800orthogonalityThe ups and downs of heliumhttp://www.metafilter.com/52087/The%2Dups%2Dand%2Ddowns%2Dof%2Dhelium
<a href="http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/991015.stories.html">LBJ and the helium filled astronaut.</a> In 1964, the Skylab project wanted to send a phone call to the president. <a href=http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/lnfsound/991015.quest.g2.rmm>They had a hard time convincing the operators to put the call through.</a> (g2 real audio link from npr)
But today, <a href=http://news.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBE94AU0OE.html> 2 college students in florida</a> discovered that <a href=http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/03/Tampabay/2_found_dead_under_de.shtml> helium can be dangerous.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.52087Sun, 04 Jun 2006 13:23:39 -0800pyramid termite